ad
Supported by
A 58-year-old university rector in Georgia died as a result of Covid-19. A cabinet member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu resigned from Israel after a national closure that coincides with the primary holidays.
Maintenance
Britain reported more than 3,000 new cases for the third consecutive day, more than double its seven-day average since the start of the month.
The White House and Republican officials have struggled to answer the scathing questions of Sunday morning news show presenters about why President Trump knowingly minimized the coronavirus in the early months of the pandemic, as journalist Bob Woodward revealed in his new book, “Rage. “”
White House industrial adviser Peter Navarro said in CNN’s “State of the Union” that “no one knew” how harmful the virus was when the president spoke to journalist Bob Woodward in February and March.
Jake Tapper, the show’s host, was aggressively rejected in the interview.
“I knew it was more fatal than the flu and begging the American public two weeks later,” Tapper said, referring to Trump’s comments on February 26. “Why hasn’t the president been frank with the American people?”
Ronna McDaniel, chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, provided another defense of the president, saying Trump understood the serious risk posed by the coronavirus in early February, but “quiet, normal, and methodical” because he didn’t need to cause panic.
“Think about what would have happened if he had gone out and said, “It’s horrible. We’re all afraid. ” We don’t have a plan,” McDaniel said in NBC’s Meet the Press. It would have been a career in the banks. It would have been a race opposed to hospitals, it would have been a career in grocery stores.
Presenter Chuck Todd called the president’s defenders saying, “You don’t yell at the chimney if you’re in a crowded movie theater. “
“That’s true, ” he said. But you do if the theater is on fire. “
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the Trump Food and Drug Administration, reported in CBS’s “Face the Nation” that the president would possibly have chosen to downplay the severity of the virus in the component because he obtained incorrect data from the outset. . Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other fitness agencies. Gottlieb noted that the C. D. C. suppressed its initial diagnostic check for the virus, preventing state laboratories from being able to verify the virus for weeks in February.
The difficulties of early monitoring of the spread of the virus by CDCs have been well documented. The agency’s plan to conduct a national surveillance effort (analyzing samples from others with flu symptoms) to determine whether the virus was spreading undetected also did not take off. Month.
“I believe that in this sense, white house leadership has been overlooked through fitness officials,” Dr. Gottlieb told the hostess, Margaret Brennan. “We didn’t have a diagnosis in the field, so we couldn’t trace it. “
“I had a lot of conversations with the White House at the time because I was worried it would spread,” Dr. Gottlieb added, “and they continually told me that they were listening to senior firm officials who were pretty confident that it wasn’t spreading here.
The first non-travel-related instances of Covid-19 in the United States were shown on February 26 and 28, suggesting that network transmission occurred in late February. Robert Redfield, director of the C. D. C. , questioned whether the firm had not detected the time when the coronavirus began to spread in the United States.
While coronavirus cases are declining in maximum parts of the country, they are in the Midwest, causing alarm in places that had so far avoided the worst of the pandemic.
“Our network is experiencing its first wave of sustained and significant diseases since the beginning of this terrible pandemic,” said Joe Parisi, director of Dane County, Wisconsin, which includes Madison. “We will have incredibly complicated and unhappy weeks if they don’t combine now and avoid this deeply disturbing trend. “
As of Friday, North Dakota, South Dakota, Missouri, and Iowa had added more recent capital-consistent instances than all states.
Case numbers are not the only indication of a problem. Test positivity rates, which measure the percentage of positive effects among all analyzed, are the main ones in much of the Great Plains, an indication of out-of-control spread and inadequate monitoring.
The infection rate in the Midwest is different from the one Brooklyn experienced in March or South Texas in July. So far, hospitalizations have not increased. No morgues have been exceeded or the locks ordered.
Young adults, who have milder instances of the virus, are helping to fuel the existing outbreak. Thousands of infections have been connected to Midwest universities, some of which have struggled to enforce social estating regulations.
“We knew this was going to happen,” said Mayor Brandon Bochenski of Grand Forks, North Dakota, where more than six hundred infections, or about one in 24 cases in the state, were connected to the University of North Dakota. only students of the school, ” added Mr. Bochenski, “we would have understood it about two hundred years ago. We did our best.
Many cases in several states have also been linked to a motorcycle rally in Sturgis, SD, which has attracted thousands of other people from across the country. Hundreds of other people lit up on a criminal in Wichita, Kansas, and parts of rural Iowa. and North Dakota, the number of cases is higher with no apparent connection to a university.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the practice of controlling fever in public spaces has become increasingly common, leading to an increase in sales of non-contact infrared thermometers and frame temperature scanners, even when clinical evidence has solidified indicating that they are priceless.
Guards with thermometric guns gave the impression on the entrances of hospitals, work buildings and production plants in the US. But it’s not the first time To detect others with fever they would probably be carrying the virus. And New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo called last week to check visitor temperatures when one of the many fundamental regulations for resuming meals inside restaurants.
But while fitness officials have approved masking and social estating as effective measures to curb the spread of the virus, some experts do not care about fever control and say that taking the temperature on access problems is a gesture that is unlikely to eliminate many inflamed people. other people and gives little more than a security ghost.
C. D. C. defines fever as a temperature of 100. 4 degrees Fahrenheit or higher. But some reports have questioned the accuracy of thermometric guns, and while temperature controls can seriously identify other people, those other people are unlikely to socialize much or faint to eat. A developing evidence framework also suggests that many of those who carry out transmission are silent carriers: others who have been inflamed but feel good and do not have a fever or other symptoms.
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which in May asked employers to check staff daily for symptoms such as fever, but gave the impression that otherwise in July, they said they would avoid requiring airport fitness checks from September 14 for foreign passengers. countries such as BrazilArray China and Iran because controls do not identify silent carriers.
Temperature controls are similar to “controlling oil before taking a long trip,” said Dr. David Thomas, infectious disease specialist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “It makes you feel better, but it would probably not help but destroy the car or prevent the tires from falling off. “
“It’s anything you can do and it makes you feel like you’re doing anything,” he says. “But that probably wouldn’t affect the other people who are spreading Covid to the fullest. “
ad